RESUME - AMY JO KIM, PH.D P R O F E S S I O N A L  E X P E R I E N C E Founder & Creative Director, NAIMA [1994-present] NAIMA has designed cutting-edge Web communities for a wide variety of companies involved in the entertainment, ecommerce, telecommunications, software, and health care industries. NAIMA's client list include Adobe, AT&T, Cybercash, eBay, Electronic Arts, Fujitsu,, iVillage, Kaiser Permanente, Keen, Talk City, Maxis, MTV, Netflix, Nickelodeon, Origin, Placeware, Sony, Swire Properties, Viacom, Westwood Studios and YAHOO.  Producer/Designer, Paramount Media Kitchen [1992-1995] Conducted a strategic evaluation of emerging online technologies for executives at MTV Networks Created the Interactive Dance Club, a CD-ROM-based networked multi-player jam session Created conceptual designs for CD-ROM/online applications for MTV, Nickelodeon, and Star Trek  Interface design for  Lenny's MusicToons, a children's music edutainment product by Music Pen  Designed and produced the Talent Network, a multimedia in-house database  Designed an in-house digital audio studio; created sound effects and soundtracks for ITV prototypes Interface Architect, Sun Microsystems [1987-1992] Lead interface designer and senior software engineer on SimplifySQL, a suite of portable database tools with multimedia extensions. Created the interface design and internal architecture of the Graphical Query Editor and the ReportWriter. Consulted on the design of Ruby (a distributed hypermedia authoring tool) and OpenLook (a Sun-internal GUI standard) Research Associate, NASA-Ames Research Center [1984-1986] Conducted psychophysical experiments to define the spatial frequency requirements for face recognition.  Designed and implemented all interface, graphics and data acquisition software. Demonstrated the experimental results by building a multi-resolution image database browser that could facilitate fast searches over bandwidth-limited networks. Scientific Programmer, Univerity of Washington [1980-1984] Developed custom software for a variety of scientific and medical labs, specializing in easy-to-use interfaces, image processing and manipulation, and real-time signal capture and analysis. E D U C A T I O N Ph.D., Behavioral Neuroscience Univ. of Washington, 1986  - specializing in Visual Psychophysics B.A., Experimental Psych.,  UC San Diego, 1978 -  specializing in Psychophysiology P U B L I C A T I O N S Community-Building On the Web PeachPit Press - April 2000 Killers Have More Fun WIRED - May 1998 Ultima Online: A Virtual World with Multiple Personalities SIGGRAPH Bulletin - May 1998 The Women of Britannia  Yahoo Internet Life  - May1998 Social Scaffolding: 9 Design Principles for Online Community-Building Web Techniques- Jan 1998 Ritual Reality: Social Design for Online Gaming Environments CGDC Proceedings - 1997 Get into the Groove: Designing for Participation ACM Interactions - Apr 1995  Developing Content & Services on the WWW Fujitsu White paper - Mar 1995 T A L K S,  S E M I N A R S  &  W O R K S H O P S Beyond Community: Groups, Networks and Ecosystems VIRCOMM - June 2001 Building Successful eLearning Communities ISPI  - May 2001 Growing Communities on the Web BBC Community Conference  - May 2001 Social Ecosystems: A new model for Web Communities New Media Knowledge Institute  - May 2001 Designing Large-scale Online Gaming Communties Game Developers Conference - March 2001 Building Virtual Communities: Top Ten Myths  iMix 2.0- Oct 2000 Growing a Web Community: 3 Immutable Laws, 9 Timeless Design Principles Stanford Seminar on People Computers & Design - Sep 2000 Web Community Design Placeware Online Seminars - Aug 2000 Building Community Offline and Online Fast Company Community@Work Summit - July 2000 Online Community Building for Military Families Department of Defense Family Readiness Conference - July 2000 Strategic Planning for Web Communities VIRCOMM- May 2000 Community Design for Large-Scale Gaming Worlds Game Developer's Conference - March 2000 KEYNOTE: Secrets of Successful Web Communities Builder.Com - Dec 1999 Ancient Rituals for a Post-Modern Medium NetFutures Forum - Nov 1998 Design Principles for Community-Building Web '98 East - Sep 1998 Leadership in Web Communities  (keynote) iVillage Community Conference - Sep 1998 The Future of Avatar-Based Online Communities Banff Center for the Arts - Jul 1998 Community & Commerce: Bridging the Gap N.E.W. '98 - Mar 1998 Creation Myths and Rites of Passage in Online Communities Avatars '97 - Oct 1997 Social Design for Online Gaming Communities Computer Game Developers Conference - Apr 1997 Ritual Reality: Social Design for Online Environments Stanford CSLI program - Dec 1996  Constructing Communities on the Net MIT Media Lab - Oct 1996  Designing Online Environments: Creating a Sense of Place S.F. State - Apr 1996  CD+ and the Net: Narrowcasting into New Relationships World Research Group - Feb 1996  Get Into The Groove: Designing for Participation UC Berkeley - Nov 1995  Interactive Performance in CyberSpace: 10 Design Principles BayCHI - Nov 1994  Musical MUDS: Jamming in CyberSpace MIT Media Lab - Jun 1994  Timing and Rhythm in Interface Design S.F. State - Oct 1993  Real-world Issues in MultiMedia Database Design MIT Media Lab - Oct 1991  T E C H N I C A L   &   ME D I A   S K I L L S Visual  & Interaction Design Tools Flash, Director, HyperCard, Photoshop, deBabelizer, Premiere Sound Design Tools SoundEdit Pro, StudioVision, Protools, Deck II, MAX Languages HTML, C, Lisp, HyperTalk, Lingo, Pascal, PDP-11 Assembler, FORTRAN, BASIC Advanced CS Courses Data Structures, Machine Architecture, Artificial Intelligence, 3D Interactive Graphics, Digital Signal Processing, Digital Circuit Design, Machine Vision B A C K